{"id":15,"date":"2014-08-21T14:41:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T18:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/worldlang\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2014-08-21T14:41:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T18:41:50","slug":"professional-spanish","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/professional-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish for the professions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GCC World Language department makes a key distinction between <em>language learning<\/em> and <em>language training<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In our specialized courses on Spanish for the professions, the focus is on language <em>training<\/em>: these courses prepare learners to perform the basic, routine functions of their work world in Spanish, taking into account cross-cultural differences. These one-semester courses allow learners to achieve functional competence in the work setting by teaching them predictable scripts and communication strategies; given the short time of study, language <em>training<\/em> does not offer the skills in open-ended communication that is the goal of language <em>learning<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For available upcoming classes, please see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/schedule\/\">online course guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GCC World Language department makes a key distinction between language learning and language training. In our specialized courses on Spanish for the professions, the focus is on language training: these courses prepare learners to perform the basic, routine functions of their work world in Spanish, taking into account cross-cultural differences. These one-semester courses allow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}